Napoli manager, Antonio Conte, has come out to say that he needs the right tools to thrive at the club. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even if he has enough admiration and respect for Aurelio Di Laurentiis, Napoli fans want to win, and if he doesn’t meet their ambition, things can get really nasty.
Conte added that he puts a lot of pressure on himself to succeed at any club he coaches, so Napoli cannot be an exception.
His words, “I have admiration and respect for the president. But Napoli asked me to give a helping hand, and I am doing that, but the Napoli fans want to win, and they have this ambition. If they don’t win, they can become nasty.
I have to calculate everything, I am not stupid. I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also need the right weapons to fight with, otherwise it’s a massacre and I don’t want to be massacred.”
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Antonio Conte Cavaliere, born 31 July 1969, is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Serie A club Napoli.
Conte was signed by Juventus manager Giovanni Trapattoni in 1991, debuting on 17 November 1991 against cross-city rivals Torino. Due to his consistent performances, work-rate, leadership and tenacious playing style, he became an important figure with the club’s fans, and was later named the team’s captain under Marcello Lippi in 1996, following the departure of the club’s previous captain Gianluca Vialli, and before the promotion of Alessandro Del Piero to the role.
During the 1998–99 season, when Del Piero suffered a severe knee injury, Conte returned to the captaincy, a position which he maintained until the 2001–02 season. During his Juventus playing career, Conte won five Serie A titles, the 1994–95 Coppa Italia, the 1992–93 UEFA Cup, the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, the 1996 UEFA Super Cup, the 1996 Intercontinental Cup (which he missed due to injury), and the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup, winning all possible top-tier club titles, aside from the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup.
Conte was regarded as a quick, combative, energetic, and tactically versatile footballer throughout his career who could play anywhere in midfield but was usually deployed as a central, box-to-box, or defensive midfielder, and occasionally on the right flank, due to his crossing ability.
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